Overwatch #1

Rewritten review; old review incorporated into newIn the first issue of Overwatch Digital Comics, we follow McCree in his own mini adventure, called Train Hopper. McCree just wants a quiet day on his rides to Houston, hoping for a low profile and to skip town. But quite soon after the train starts moving, McCree realises his trip is going to be anything but low profile.When I first saw this comic for free on the Amazon Kindle Store in March, I had to read it, due to an old friend being in love with the game. After one of my boyfriends turned out to be really big OVW trash – and after I managed to find the two missing comics on my Amazon cloud – I had to reread it. I never expected to fall in love with McCree back in March when I first read this.I definitely didn’t expect to fall in love with him all over again now, in November. I still really love the art style in this. Bengal did absolutely wonders with the art work in this. Despite it only being 10 pages long, everything is so sleek and fits together well. I don’t know if that was because it was only 10 pages long, so Bengal had more time to focus on it, or if Bengal treated it like any long paged comic but the art style is just amazing. Bengal is probably one of my favourite comic illustrators, and has been since I read these, and coming back to this was just amazing.I said back in March that this comic was short, but well worth the read, and it’s definitely made me want to play the fame and read more in the series. Again, this holds true. This makes me want to go download the game, and set up an account, and get on and play as McCree. I said this was a wonderful story, short, precise and to the point and again, I stand by this statement in full. This is still a short story, only ten pages, but it reads well, it is smooth and there’s no screwing around. However, this doesn’t feel rushed. I don’t know if this is because I knew what was coming, vaguely, or if it was because of how the story was set up, but it did not feel rushed. It was surprisingly well paced for a ten page comic, and I was shocked, even now, reading it a second time.I still thoroughly enjoyed this, a lot. It made me laugh, it made me smile, and I think I left just enough time between readings to enjoy this fully. I forgot what happened in this, but reading through it again brought back the fond memories of sitting in my room, at 3am reading this for the first time, and I still really enjoyed it the second time. I don’t know if these are still free, but I recommend this comic series for any science fiction / Overwatch fan.